Midland
['mɪdlənd]
Definition
(noun.) the interior part of a country.
(noun.) a town in west central Texas.
Typist: Pierce--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants.
(a.) Surrounded by the land; mediterranean.
(n.) The interior or central region of a country; -- usually in the plural.
Typed by Carla
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Inland.[2]. Mediterranean.
Edited by Bessie
Examples
- The names of the occupants were painted at the bottom on the wall, but there was no such name as the Franco-Midland Hardware Company, Limited. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Kindly write upon it I am perfectly willing to act as business manager to the Franco-Midland Hardware Company, Limited, at a minimum salary of L500. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He is in the Midland Electrical Company, at Coventry. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex, shrank cruelly from this amorphous ugliness of a small colliery town in the Midlands. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She was the most remarkable woman in the Midlands. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But before long the great metropolis of London required railroad communication with the Midlands, and the London and Birmingham road was projected. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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